Improvement in cakying-foees and knife-shaepenee combined



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IMPROVEMENT IN GARVING-I'ORKS "AND KNIFE-SHARPBNER COMBINED.

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TO ALL WHOM INMAY GONCERN:

Be it known that I, EDWARD SQS'CQFIELD, of the city of Rochester, countyof Monroe, and State oi5 New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement on"Garving-Forks; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description of the same,` reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the lettersof reference marked' thereon,in which- Figure I represents my improved fork with the guard closed,Ain connection with a knife, placed iti-positionl for sharpening.

Figure 2 represents e. back view of my improved fork with guard closed.

Figure 3 represents a guard detached from the fork.

The nature ofrn'y invention consists in the peculiar construction andarrangement of a guard on carving forks, that, by closing the guard, thesame may be used as a. knife-Sharpener.

To enable others skilled in the art to make or use my invention, I willproceed to describeuits construction and operation. I i l I makenay-guard for carving-forks of hardened steel. The end or point of guard(marked b in drawing) is made bevelling on two sides toward the insideof fork', and terminates in a sharp point, as shown in drawing, figs. 1,2, and 3. The point orvend Z1 is also made to t in (when the guard iSClosed) betweengthe tines of the fork in such a manner as to leave aspace, c c, between the tines of the fork and the bevelling 'edges ofpoint b, .asseen in drawing, figs. 1 and 2.

The sharpening of the knife is eiec either of the bevelled edges ofpoint b.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatenttisl.-

rd a, when in connetzio'with a fork, in the manner ted after closing theguard, a, by drawing the edge of the knife across VThe peculiarconstruction and arrangement of' the gua and for thepurpose specifiedand described.

EDWARD S. SCOFIELD.

Witnesses:

GEO. FRAUENRERGER. GEO. EICHORN.

